76R13679 E By Olivo H.B. No. 3469 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3469: By Swinford C.S.H.B. No. 3469 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain county and public health district fees 1-3 regarding certain food establishments. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 437.0123(a), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A county that has a population of at least 2.8 million 1-8 or is adjacent to a county of 2.8 million or a public health 1-9 district at least part of which is in a county that has a 1-10 population of at least 2.8 million or is adjacent to a county of 1-11 2.8 million may require the payment of a fee for issuing or 1-12 renewing a permit or for performing an inspection to enforce this 1-13 chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.